"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire……" — Bertrand Russell

"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it."

— Bertrand Russell

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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is… — Robert Barclay
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any… — Edward de Bono
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money… — Eli Broad
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge. — Jeb Bush
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly… — Smedley Butler
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement;… — Vince Cable
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. — Taylor Caldwell
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to… — Alexander Hamilton
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and… — George Fordyce

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